I have to say it was a wonderful ride. Never read the manga or light novel so this is my first in this story.

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Gotta say that a few rejections were an honest surprise and cleat to the face: Ayasee and Kanako (this one in particular really stung me for some reason.) Regardless, while I would say I am disappointed with the ending overall, it was not mediocre or bad; if anything it proved what kept me hooked on this anime to the end despite my initial doubts and concern with the theme of the whole thing. A engaging story, with vivid and dimensional characters that, when put together, made for a great anime.

Ideally, they should have, in the spirit of visual novels; had alternate endings made. While some I'm sure would cry about it 'deviating from the cannon' or whatever, I think it would have been an interesting wrap to an interesting show.

The end though, they come to terms, through Manami's lecture, which stole the act in my opinion; coming to terms with the fact what they felt was not only socially taboo, but morally repulsive, made for a fantastic wind-down of the final act and the whole series.

umm you sure because im reading the manga and everything so far is the same

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The manga only covers the first 2 light novels.

oh and is the LN still continuing ?

no its over except for that one thing.

they didn't show the part where manami was the cause of the cold war between kyousuke and kirino

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The report on AkibaBlog today is posting an http://node2.2012sep.akibablog.net/images/8/oreimo11/109.html of a rather important breakdown of the history of the feud between Kirino and Kyousuke -- how it started, how it escalated, and how it's working towards getting resolved. It seems to have started with Manami driving a wedge between them in the past, and as Kyousuke got closer and closer to Manami's family, Kirino became further estranged. To that point, even though Kirino wasn't talking to Kyousuke as much, she still admired/liked him. It wasn't until another incident three years ago involving Manami that Kirino really started hating Kyousuke, and that lasted two years until the "Life Counselling" started. And, as we already know, the story of the OreImo novel timeline has basically been about thawing Kirino's hatred of Kyousuke and reviving her feelings for him. Now, of course, Kyousuke has to figure out his feelings in the midst of all this, and it looks like that will be resolved in the last volume.

Most of the story seems to revolve around an extended flashback that tells the story of what happened three years ago that finally caused Kirino to actively dislike Kyousuke. The story seems to revolve around Kyousuke's interactions with another girl (櫻井秋美 = Akimi Sakurai??? Not sure about the pronunciation). At that time, Kyousuke was a hot-blooded model student who was worried about students who weren't showing up in class. That led to him befriending this girl, and them going on a bunch of adventures. But one day she went mountain-climbing with Kyousuke, and she ended up getting injured (fractured a bone). As a result, her parents withdrew her from that school. At around the same time, Kyousuke's grandmother had died, so everything was going poorly. The entire class blamed Kyousuke for what happened to Sakurai, and Manami got really angry (at Sakurai, at Kyousuke, and at the class). Kyousuke was depressed and went home crying, where Kirino consoled him. But later, Manami came over and gave him some "Life Consultation" -- she said that it couldn't be helped because Kyousuke's nothing special, that he's just a normal guy, and incidentally she liked him that way. Traumatized by what had happened and based on Manami's "advice", Kyousuke stopped being ambitious, and turned into the peace-loving "normal" person that we meet at the start of the show. And that's when Kirino started to hate him. Now, back to the present, they get back in contact with Sakurai, and Kyousuke arranged to meet her, and they apologize for what happened in the past, and Sakurai confesses to Kyousuke (something she couldn't do three years back), but Kyousuke has to turn her down saying that he's already in love with someone.

This is what Manami told kirino (she looks creepy too)

That's strange.
That's not average.
That's not normal.
Don't tell anyone that feeling.
Quickly forget it and give up, and go back to being normal siblings.

It ended the way the light novels so far ended, there's no point in getting mad about it. It's the way the author wanted it to be. It's like getting mad at the show Game of Thrones because you don't like how things are going with your favorite characters.

Ok so after watching the 3 OVAS, i have to say....im happy and sad at the same time, Kuroneko was my first choise and i actually had a little hope that Kyouske would have chosen her, my next in line was of course Kirino, i loved the 3 ovas, and i got everything i wanted, but in 1 second, my happiness was torn apart by one simple part, the episode should have ended right when they kissed, seriously! it should have been the perfect ending for me (not for others of course) but they give me that! all he fought just for them to go back to normal! *sigh*, i really do hope the novels have a better ending than this one, i really hope for a Kuroneko ending, or at least a proper Kirino ending! i have so many mixed feelings right now hahaha, havent felt like this in a long time!

Ok so after watching the 3 OVAS, i have to say....im happy and sad at the same time, Kuroneko was my first choise and i actually had a little hope that Kyouske would have chosen her, my next in line was of course Kirino, i loved the 3 ovas, and i got everything i wanted, but in 1 second, my happiness was torn apart by one simple part, the episode should have ended right when they kissed, seriously! it should have been the perfect ending for me (not for others of course) but they give me that! all he fought just for them to go back to normal! *sigh*, i really do hope the novels have a better ending than this one, i really hope for a Kuroneko ending, or at least a proper Kirino ending! i have so many mixed feelings right now hahaha, havent felt like this in a long time!

This is the exact way the novels went to my understanding. Though there is one last thing coming out when the series hits blu-ray in Japan. So we might just get some sort of conclusion to all of this when that happens.

Ok so I just finished watching the last episode and I gotta say, I'm not too sure how I feel about this. I never read the manga, so I'm not sure how much it differs from the anime, but the whole time I watched this, I always felt like Kyosuke and Kirino's relationship couldn't be explained in any literal sense. Like, everything always had a double meaning, or a hidden meaning. Like when he says he loves his sister, I'm just thinking in the sense that a brother would love his sister, but in a way that's a bit more elaborate.

But then we see him tell Kuroneko that he loves someone else, and find out later it's actually his own sister. He proposes to her, and she says yes. This is where I start to get really confused. So, what does this mean? Is this just some really dramatic way of saying that he doesn't want his sister to leave because he will miss her, or does he mean it literally? That he really wants to marry his sister like a normal couple would? Then we're treated to his close friends becoming aware of it, and not reacting in a way that any normal person would react (OMG thats so GROSS!!!). Sasori kinda shrugs it off, though she isn't very suportive, and Kuroneko actually seemed okay with it. The only one who made any sense was Manami when she told them exactly what I would expect any normal person to tell them; that its not normal and disgusting. And just to confuse me even more, Kyosuke throws a fake wedding, kisses his own sister, then its revealed that it was just... some kind of game?

What? Kyosuke virtually destroyed his relationships (especially Kuroneko and Minami; again, I haven't read the manga so I don't know if there's more to it) for a game? Would this even be called a game? A prank? "Ha! Psych! I was just joking! We're not actually going out!" What was the point of all that? Did he really love his sister in an incest way? Why did they go through that whole thing? To build a stronger bond? Isn't there less self destructive ways of doing it?

And then what really makes me scratch my head was the ending, where they made it seem like all is well. Do any of the others know they're not going out anymore? Does Manami know, or does she eternally hate Kyosuke now? What about Kuroneko? She made it sound like she's done with him. What did he accomplish? Getting closer to his sister? Like I said, was all of that necessary just for that purpose? I really don't know what to feel about this ending, or even this anime anymore. It was understandable at first, but these last three episodes just threw a wrench right at me. Or, am I not supposed to take it so seriously? Is there even a point? Was it never intended to make any sense?

What do you guys think? I'm really curious to know of other's opinions on this.

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We can make a strong inference from the fight with Manami, and that's that they are somewhat serious. Getting violent and breaking someone's glasses isn't something you do for fun. They are sincere for each other, and their agreement to back out is so that they can live a normal life in society. They're acknowledging that graduation means entering real life means stepping in line with everybody else, putting on a normal appearance, so you can get paid and keep living. They let their friends in on it and he rejected everybody else because they are sincere - and beyond high school relationships with high schooler acquaintances are also mostly inconsequential, so there's no fear of repercussions from them knowing, but they back off because in life beyond high school it would be too scary to have that secret. What he/they accomplished was being honest with their desires for each other followed by being honest with themselves about their environment.

Yeah, if you're a normal person, you think it's gross, but don't worry, they're so intimidated and controlled by the percentage of people that won't accept them that they're going to do their best to back off.

Anyway, despite whatever road the plot went down, it was a good watch, well animated and directed show.

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But it all just seemed to be way too rushed for it to turn out this way. Maybe its more fleshed out in the manga, but as far as the anime version is concerned, all of this just comes flying at us at full speed without a care about how anyone thinks. When Ayase confesses to Kyosuke and he tells her he's in love with someone else, the most natural assumption is Kuoneko (that's what I believed too). Then we suddenly find out that he rejects Kuroneko for his own sister. The entire 2 seasons was about a brother who had a very badly damaged relationship with his sister, and his mission to repair it, even at the cost of having his own father think him to be worthless. Even Kuroneko tries to help him with this cause in her own frustratingly elaborate way. Kyosuke always called himself a siscon, but I never once believed it to be in a serious way, rather it was his way to saying to Kirino that he does care about her, even when they were apart. Kirino was always very difficult to get along with, and I really didn't like her in the beginning, so I believed that whenever he said things like that, its because thats the kind of language that Kirino would understand.

I just don't see where feelings like this could crop up, especially between siblings, where its not natural. There wasn't enough in the 2 seasons where something like this is expected, or even makes sense. You know what this reminds me of? The villain in "Othello". What I remember from that story was how the villain winds up getting what he wants, but the plan he had in motion was so complicated and elaborate that things wind up going too far. This seems like the same thing. It seems like they did it for fun, but then things got way too out of hand, and there was a fight and injury involved. It even seemed like the reasons behind it got mixed up. Did Kirino hate Manami because she was interested in Kyosuke, or because she treated her like a kid? They seemed to be fighting for two different reasons, which only made it more infuriating. Things went too far, and now it seems like Kyosuke lost a childhood friend.

When did they start loving each other in such a way? Was it truly necessary to hurt all of his friends to do it? Did everything go as Kyosuke expected, or did things get out of hand at some point, and he just adapted to it, as we know he is very capable of doing? Am I even supposed to take this seriously? I think this is the first anime I've ever watched where I'm not sure how to feel about it.